Why Are Some Countries Neutral?

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3 ай бұрын

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@generaledelogu1892 3 ай бұрын

Country squares > country balls

@BinknotLink 3 ай бұрын

@@LBNBall yeah i love balls!

@victorvalansuela2 2 ай бұрын

@user-gr9fq9gt9w 3 ай бұрын

1:13 Seriously, Switzerland? You didn't even recognize the authority of the UN until 2002!

@youriefavre9003 3 ай бұрын

Yeah... we had a referendum here for Switzerland to join the UN and it almost didn't pass

@Andreas_42 3 ай бұрын

We did recognise the authority of the UN. For example, Switzerland based many sanctions against other countries on UN decisions even before joining the organisation. Recognising does not equal joining. We recognise the economic and military power of the USA without beeing a member state 😉

@user-gr9fq9gt9w 3 ай бұрын

@@Andreas_42 That's a very poor comparison. The UN has no real power. But the entire foreign policy of Switzerland is based on the UN's definition of """neutrality"""? The UN is absolutely not neutral, by any means.

@Andreas_42 3 ай бұрын

@@user-gr9fq9gt9w The comparison was there to remind you that recognising the authority of an organisation doesn't equal joining it, as well as showing that Switzerland has based sanctions on UN resulutions before joining the organisation. And please stop intentionally misrepresent my arguments. Neither did I write that the entire Swiss foreign policy is based on UN decisions nor that the UN itself is neutral or defines Swiss neutrality. Swiss neutrality is older then the UN and in it's current form based on the Hague Conventions of October 18th 1907.

@user-gr9fq9gt9w 3 ай бұрын

@@Andreas_42 I wasn't referring to what you wrote at any of my comments. I obviously know what's "recognition", it was a joke.

@check_it141yt 2 ай бұрын

i love how he got rid of france on the world map

@AverytheCubanAmerican 3 ай бұрын

Out of the neutral countries, the most interesting one is probably Turkmenistan. Turkmenistan became neutral under their first president Saparmurat Niyazov aka Turkmenbashi (leader of the Turkmen). They basically looked at their border with Iran, Afghanistan, the fact that they're a former Soviet republic means they'd have to deal with Russia and considering the need for stabilization and development in Central Asia, they recognized that being a permanently neutral country was the path to follow. They became neutral in 1995, and while they tout it as this incredible vote, it wasn't quite that. On December 12, 1995, there were 82 things on the agenda in the UN General Assembly, and Turkmenistan's neutrality was the last thing for the day, so it was more a quick "The First Committee already agreed to this, let's do a quick vote and go home" than an actual debate To celebrate neutrality, they built a golden statue of Niyazov on the top of a huge marble monument that spun so that it was always facing the Sun, to show that Niyazov's era was Turkmenistan's golden era. Niyazov envisioned neutrality as, among other things, making Turkmenistan a neutral venue for feuding parties to come and work out their differences. In the first five years of its neutrality, that was true as Turkmenistan hosted talks between warring parties from the Tajik and Afghan civil wars. But it made Niyazov's Turkmenistan a hermit kingdom. While Turkmenistan participates in Commonwealth of Independent States summits, Turkmenistan is an observer state. Same for the Organization of Turkic States, it's just an observer state.

@i_like_blueberries 2 ай бұрын

I ain’t reading allat

@ducksongfans Ай бұрын

Turkmenbashi? Like that weird dictator guy?

@s_c_o_t_t_c 3 ай бұрын

"I can freeload of these guys" is the low standard of quality control I have come to expect from this channel. This keeps me coming back for more. Keep up the mediocre work. 👍

@Rzarecteh 3 ай бұрын

Damn your editing game has gone crazy

@mandranmagelan9430 3 ай бұрын

15:27 fun fact: only the old bridges have explosive ordnance, the modern ones are retractable :-)

@stargazer-elite 3 ай бұрын

8:41 “is member of no alliance” *Rio treaty has left chat*

@user-rf1gr9td7u 3 ай бұрын

This was a great video! One of my faves from over the years I think.

@kollllya 3 ай бұрын

The Franceless world map ✨

@Nooticus 2 ай бұрын

Great video. This series is great, but i do love your unplanned videos too

@jordansmith4040 3 ай бұрын

Wow, this was impressively well done.

@xMa2k 2 ай бұрын

The editing in this video is actually cold

@booaks2980 3 ай бұрын

Would be interesting to watch a video of you talking about a country you know the least about in terms of everything

@SupremeLeaderKimJong-un 3 ай бұрын

The map at 2:13 is just....pain. There weren't three alliances during WWII, just the Allies and Axis. The Comintern dissolved in 1943 and it wasn't a full-on military alliance. Hungary (which ate Germany's puppet Slovak Republic in this map) was an ally of the Germans. Spain was under fascist Franco during WWII and was nominally neutral. Bulgaria was a fascist kingdom and an ally of the Germans. Norway was invaded by the Germans and had a collaborationist government, the Quisling regime. Finland was invaded by the Soviets, successfully fought back and kept most of their land, and fought against the Soviets again during the Continuation War with support from the Germans. And based on the borders in the Middle East, it looks like Turkey still has the Ottoman Empire, which of course was neither communist nor did Turkey keep the rest of the former Ottoman Empire after WWI.

@ThePixelated_kris 3 ай бұрын

Wow our supreme leader is so smart

@ultimatestuff7111 2 ай бұрын

Turkey was neutral, and the French controlled Syria was obviously Allie’s, also Denmark was axis (it surrendered and became a German protectorate)

@anders7416 3 ай бұрын

2:13 ??? What ???

@EasyLemons 3 ай бұрын

Turkey, Spain and Finland in the Comintern 🤨🤨

@proskar3146 3 ай бұрын

2:28. Fortuantely they Sweden was always on the right side of history. Sorry, far right side of the history:)

@TheOne_6 3 ай бұрын

i love how the world map has new zealand but not france

@MHX11 3 ай бұрын

"second channel don't care" now has editing? what happened are you ok

@Mark-ib2st 3 ай бұрын

Tv citizens can join the British Army though

@Aidan_Au 3 ай бұрын

Thank you Toycat for helping us learn more about Europe and the world!

@bloodofthelamb13 3 ай бұрын

Because they know other people will do the work for them.

@Slithermotion 3 ай бұрын

Not really. Neutral countries defend themself and the border not the interest of their politicians in foreign countries. And let‘s be real…as long as you are pro or against something bjt are not willing to go to rhe frontline yourself you will let someone else do the work… Americans would be way less motivated or less supportive of war if their goverment actually forces them on the front line…

@bluenevla7874 3 ай бұрын

Lol love u ibx

@JeepartN 3 ай бұрын

nice background map lol

@LUNE.44 3 ай бұрын

Toycat please pronounce Tuvaluan correctly 😭😭 No wonder they dont watch your vids 😭

@ibx2cat 3 ай бұрын

when my first Tuvalu subscriber joins they can tell me how

@vedanshgehlot4845 3 ай бұрын

toycat is the only good professional yapper 🗣️

@JmKrokY 3 ай бұрын

I like how your background world map lacks a certain country near the UK 🗿

@UncleP4pr1k4 3 ай бұрын

Yoo, Polandball just got a sick update bro!

@mjjanv 2 ай бұрын

From the river to the sea🇵🇸 10:57

@WolfDarkrose 2 ай бұрын

between ww1 and ww2 ifi remember write we declared that if any major nation invaded south america from panama south we would fight back in the usa but i may have missed it being rejected.. tho since costa rica is next to it they must figure the usa will be the big scary bulldog and take over.

@MRSYSTEM96 3 ай бұрын

My only question is, if 2 countries share a border along a river, and the coarse of the river changes after a while, why don't the countries update the borders every few years?

@JohnGrandline 2 ай бұрын

the sin of sloth and or cowardness

@ultimatestuff7111 2 ай бұрын

2:17 is just so false, Comintern was only Mongolia tannu tuba and the Soviet Union, Spain was neutral, Hungary was axis and it had northern Transylvania, Bulgaria was axis turkey was neutral, French ruled Syria was Allie’s, Finland was neutral but kinda allied with the axis but more so in self defense, only a small part of France was axis, the Vichy France border isn’t shown on the map so it’s not axis, Yugoslavia was axis, Allie’s, then Croatia was axis again, oh and before the war Germany didn’t have Danzig and Poland was allies

@datcheesecakeboi6745 2 ай бұрын

Spain wasn't neutral they had more U-boat docks then Germany

@ultimatestuff7111 2 ай бұрын

@@datcheesecakeboi6745 Spain wasn’t directly at war, they only sent 2 volunteer divisions

@datcheesecakeboi6745 2 ай бұрын

@@ultimatestuff7111 so it wasn't neutral

@natangebrelibanos9167 3 ай бұрын

2:24 💀

@animeforever5069 3 ай бұрын

Oh UK 13:11 😅

@Scuttlerofwhimsey 2 ай бұрын

Ireland in ww2; Allowed allied flight over donegal for the sake of convenience Smuggled allied pilots back to the war over the border while axis pilots were detained till the wars end Gave early weather reports which proved vital to the success of the D Day landings Thousands of Irish men went to fighr regardless of neutrality. You may be thinking, what about the "condolences"? This is a grossly over exaggerated event. De Valera observed the same diplomatic protocol he afforded the US when their president died. While Douglas Hyde did go to express actual condolences, this meeting was not goverment related and was only discovered to have happened recently. In reality, De Valera fought to have Jews included in our constitution while the rest of europe turned against them and after the was allowed a large group of Jewish refugees into the country. He has a forest in Israel named after him. Our neutrality was purely performative, violated countless times with pro ally bias.

@JamesHussey404 Ай бұрын

I'll also add to this, Ireland waged a secret war against the Germans by literally hunting down every Nazi spy and sympathiser in the country. I'd recommend to anyone interested in reading Ireland's Secret War by Eoin McMenamin it's a very good read and reveals a lot of Ireland's involvement in WW2.

@appleisthebest8433 Ай бұрын

👍

@lobbyskids2 3 ай бұрын

I hate these filthy Neutrals, Kif. With enemies you know where they stand, but with Neutrals, who knows? It sickens me." - Zap Brannigan

@SerbiaUltraNationalist420 2 ай бұрын

Bros obssesed with minecraft and with history just like me what a legend

@animeforever5069 3 ай бұрын

Oh there is our country 😂 6:35

@just-dashin 2 ай бұрын

countrysquares

@NMY232 3 ай бұрын

"Countries that don't defend themselves?" Seriously? That title is such a troll on neutral countries. E.g. As part Irish yourself you must surely be aware that the only country the Republic of Ireland has ever realistically had to defend against is GB. And Ireland technically won.

@ibx2cat 3 ай бұрын

This thought comes up in the video

@KobiKraft 3 ай бұрын

@@ibx2cat no-ones had enough time to watch the whole video anyways by now as its longer then the amount of time since it was uploaded

@G.A.C_Preserve 3 ай бұрын

Ireland? Never heard of it

@datcheesecakeboi6745 2 ай бұрын

@@KobiKraftdon't comment then

@yayfly7349 2 ай бұрын

I only just noticed you don’t just do minecraft 😮 I have always been Interested in your political side

@10meisterballe 2 ай бұрын

1:36 Switzerland isn’t in the EEA 🤦‍♂️

@thearousedeunuch 3 ай бұрын

Am I the only one that misses the old Google Maps video format, from an aesthetic standpoint?

@kamikadzeto7 3 ай бұрын

I know this will not be popular but if there was a vote, I vote for disbanding all militaries.

@alexpotts6520 3 ай бұрын

This is kinda not unpopular at all but actually the default view, isn't it? But nobody ever gets a choice to disband all militaries, the only choice any sovereign country ever has is to disband their own military while all other national armies continue to exist; and that's a very hard step to take, which explains why 90+% of countries have their own military.